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DJ Chrisbe’s Song of the Week #155: Cou Cou

18.02.2013 by Chris

This is a song that swings but I still wouldn't call it a typical swing song. However, it works for dancing and it's a nice one to spice up your DJ sets.

Erin McKeown

Erin McKeown (*1977) is an American folk/rock performer, writer, and multi-instrumentalist.

She began her folk career by performing in local clubs and coffeehouses at night. By day, she attended Brown University to study ethnomusicology, a field that would eventually fuel the diversity and depth of her own music.

In 1995, McKeown entered the mid-Atlantic song contest held by the songwriters' association in Washington, DC, and finished as a semi-finalist. With proof that others believed in her talent, she worked hard to found a label of her own, where she could record her music free of outside constraints.

After creating TVP Records, she enlisted help from other artists to record her debut album.

In 2006, she returned to the studio to record a standards album, Sing You Sinners.

Source: iTunes/Rovi

Cou Cou

From that album is the song Cou Cou. Sorry for the cheesy YouTube clip (it was not released by the artist herself)

I like the atmosphere in this song, and her accent singing the lyrics. 😉

Title: Cou Cou
Artist: Erin McKeown
Released: 2007
Album: Sing You Sinners
Tempo: 169 bpm
Dance: Lindy Hop, Balboa

Click the link to download the song from: iTunes ･ Amazon ･ Amazon DE ･ Amazon UK

You can find all the songs of the series also on my Spotify playlist or on 8tracks.
Official hashtag of the series: #djcsotw

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DJ Chrisbe’s Song of the Week #154: You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me

11.02.2013 by Chris

How many European Jazz artists do you know? I have to say I don't know that many. That's why I'm looking all the time for European musicians I've never heard about before.

One of these musicians I recently discovered is this English man with born into a wealthy family

Humphrey “Humph” Lyttelton

Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton (May 23, 1921 – April 25, 2008) was a English trumpeter, bandleader, composer, record company owner, cartoonist, writer and radio host.

He was born in Eton College, where his father was a famous housemaster, and where he was subsequently educated.

He formed his first jazz band in 1948, after spending a year with George Webb’s Dixielanders, a band which pioneered New Orleans-style jazz in Britain.

Humphrey Lyttelton and His Band, with Wally Fawkes on clarinet, soon became the leading traditional jazz band in Britain, with a high reputation in Europe gained through many Continental tours.

In 1949, he signed a recording contract with EMI, resulting in a string of now much sought-after recordings in the Parlophone Super Rhythm Style series.

Prior to that, the band had already made records on his own London Jazz label, and had accompanied the great Sidney Bechet in an historic session for Melodisc in 1949.

It was for Parlophone that Humph recorded his own ‘Bad Penny Blues’ which, in 1956, was the first British jazz record to get into the Top Twenty.

Source: humphreylyttelton.com

You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me

This is a live version of that popular song from the 1930s.

I don't know exactly when it was recorded, but I like it better than the studio recorded version on other albums.

Title: You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me
Artist: Humphrey Lyttelton & His Band
Recorded: 1956/1957 (?)
Album: Humph, Bruce & Sandy Swing At The BBC
Tempo: 164 bpm
Dance: Lindy Hop, Balboa beginners

Click the link to download the song at
iTunes EU ･ iTunes US ･ Amazon DE ･ Amazon US ･ Amazon UK

What is your favorite tune by Humph? Share your thoughts in the comment section below!

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Every Monday, I post a new “Song of the Week“.
You can find the songs also on my Spotify playlist or on 8tracks.

DJ Chrisbe’s Song of the Week #151: Joe Louis Stomp

21.01.2013 by Chris

Let's go back to the Swing era!

Bill Coleman

William Johnson Coleman (Aug. 4, 1904 – Aug. 24, 1981 in Toulouse) was a mellow-toned swing trumpeter with a distinctive sound and a lyrical style who spent most of his career in Europe.

Scott Yanow writes in Third Ear – The Essential Listening Companion:

“It was ironic that he was born near Paris, Kentucky, for he would spend a lot of time in Paris, France, throughout his life.”

Bill Coleman started early on to play in different bands and in 1927, he went to New York and worked with Cecil and Lloyd Scott. Two years later, he joined Luis Russell‘s orchestra (1929-1932).

In 1933, he traveled to France with Lucky Millinder. In the next year, Coleman recorded with Fats Waller and played with Teddy Hill's Orchestra, before he moved to France for the first time in September 1935.

While in Europe, he worked with Freddy Tailor and recorded frequently as a leader. With Leao Abbey's orchestra, he played in Bombay, India during 1936-1937, was back in Paris from 1937-1938 with Willie Lewis and co-led the Harlem Rhythmakers in Egypt, before he returned to the U.S. due to World War II.

Back New York, Coleman played with Benny Carter, Teddy Wilson, Andy Kirk, Mary Lou Williams, and John Kirby, and recorded with Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins.

However, he preferred life in Europe and, after a period with groups led by Sy Oliver and Billy Kyle, in December 1948, Coleman moved permanently back to France, staying active and recording fairly regularly up until his death in 1981.

Joe Louis Stomp

Joe Louis Stomp is a tune Bill Coleman recorded while he was living in Paris for the first time.

A beautiful Balboa tune featuring his distinctive mellow-tone.

Title: Joe Louis Stomp
Artist: Bill Coleman
Recorded: January 31, 1936
Tempo: 215 bpm
Dance: Balboa

Click the link to download the song from: iTunes ･ Amazon

You can find all the songs of the series also on my Spotify playlist.
Official hashtag of the series: #djcsotw

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DJ Chrisbe’s Song of the Week #148: Tu Vuò Fà L’Americano

31.12.2012 by Chris

Currently, I'm at The Snowball in Stockholm Sweden and I'm one of the main DJs here. Most of the times, I'm DJ'ing for Balboa dancers.

This song is quite new in my library and always when I spin it, a few dancers wanna know the details about it.

I'm more than happy to share it in my weekly series. My thanks go to David Knoll, a swing and tango dancer in Zürich, who brought this tune to my attention.

Tu Vuò Fà L'Americano

About the song, taken from Wikipedia:

“Tu vuò fà l'americano” (English: “You want to do American”, or more idiomatically, “You're an American wannabe”) is a Neapolitan language song by Italian singer Renato Carosone.

Carosone wrote the song in collaboration with Nicola “Nisa” Salerno in 1956. Combining swing and jazz, it became one of his best-known songs. Commissioned by Ricordi director Rapetti for a radio contest, the music was composed by Carosone in a very short time after reading Nisa's lyrics; he immediately believed the song would become a great success.

Carosone's original version of the song was performed by him in the film Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche (directed by Mario Mattoli, 1958). The song was featured in the 1960 Melville Shavelson film It Started in Naples, in which it was sung by Sofia Loren. It was also performed by Rosario Fiorello in the 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley.

The lyrics are about an Italian who imitates the contemporary American lifestyle and acts like a Yankee, drinking whisky and soda, dancing to rock ‘n roll, playing baseball and smoking Camel cigarettes, but who still depends on his parents for money. The song is generally considered to be a satire on the process of Americanization that occurred in the early post-war years, when southern Italy was still a rural, traditional society.

Well, the lyrics you have to find somewhere else since this version by the German Jazz and World Music quartet Quadro Nuevo (founded in 1996) is an instrumental one.

Title: Tu Vuo' Fa' L'americano
Artist: Quadro Nuevo
Recorded: 2002
Album: Canzone Della Strada
Tempo: 194 bpm
Dance: Balboa

Click the link to download the song at
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Every Monday, I post a new “Song of the Week“.
You can find the songs also on my Spotify playlist or on 8tracks.

DJ Chrisbe’s Song of the Week #147: Mele Kalikimaka

24.12.2012 by Chris

I was wondering if I should feature a Christmas song. Because when you're listening to the Spotify playlist “DJ Chrisbe's Song of the Week” during the year, then you probably don't want to listen to Christmas music.

But hey, it's a nice swinging tune, there is some ukulele in it, so I decided to choose this one anyways:

Mele Kalikimaka

Here is what I found about it on Wikipedia:

“Mele Kalikimaka” is a Hawaiian-themed Christmas song written in 1949 by Robert Alex Anderson. The song takes its title from the Hawaiian phrase, “Mele Kalikimaka,” meaning “Merry Christmas”.

The phrase is borrowed directly from English but since Hawaiian has a different phonological system – Hawaiian does not have the /r/ or /s/ of English and its phonotactic constraints do not permit consonants at the end of syllables or consonant clusters – “Merry Christmas” becomes “Mele Kalikimaka”.

One of the earliest recordings of this song was by Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters in 1950 on Decca 27228 (78 rpm) / 9-27228 (45 rpm) and it has been covered by many artists.

The Puppini Sisters

Inspired by the Andrews Sisters, who took the genre of singing in close harmony to the top (one hundred and thirteen songs in the American charts between 1938 and 1951), Marcella Puppini created a new Sisters group with Kate Mullins and original member Rosanna Shura (later replaced by Stephanie O'Brien and since July 2012 by Terrianne Passingham).

The idea was not to try and copy the enchantments of a historical songbook: rather to create an individual sound, which would encapsulate the trio’s eclectic influences.

As they write about themselves, the Puppini Sisters have long become synonym with the intoxicating mix of music and style they call Swing-Pop, and have won hearts all over the world.

On October 5, 2010, the Puppini Sisters released their third album Christmas With The Puppini Sisters and this week's song is taken from that album.

Title: Mele Kalikimaka
Artist: The Puppini Sisters
Recorded: 2010
Album: Christmas With The Puppini Sisters
Tempo: 206 bpm
Dance: Lindy Hop, Balboa

Click the link to download the song at
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DJ Chrisbe’s Song of the Week #155: Cou Cou

Erin McKeown

Cou Cou

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DJ Chrisbe’s Song of the Week #154: You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me

Humphrey “Humph” Lyttelton

You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me

What is your favorite tune by Humph? Share your thoughts in the comment section below!

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